Heard an interview/discussion of this on NPR this morning and it sounded very interesting, something I might like to read (was never much interested in reading H.P. -- please don't shoot me) but I'll be d*mned if I'll pay $18 for the ebook. That's outrageous!

Now if it were E.L. Doctorow or John Irving ....

Just downloaded the sample and read the first few pages.....it's a pass...

Heard an interview/discussion of this on NPR this morning and it sounded very interesting, something I might like to read (was never much interested in reading H.P. -- please don't shoot me) but I'll be d*mned if I'll pay $18 for the ebook. That's outrageous!

Now if it were E.L. Doctorow or John Irving ....

Just downloaded the sample and read the first few pages.....it's a pass...

There is no way that I will buy the ebook at $18. I'll wait for the price to come down or try and get the ebook from my library.

What do you mean by 'another'?
She hasn't written any. No book containing magic whilst treating it with such astronomic amounts of logical inconsistency like the HPs do deserves to be called Fantasy. Say it's a sociocritical allegory or whatever - fine.
But to call it Fantasy is an eye-bleeding statement to read.

Harry Potter is fantasy. It may not be the kind you prefer to read, and you may have issues with the quality, but it most certainly is fantasy.

I think Amazon's doing *something* to them... it says it's got 19 days in the top 100.

They are probably including presales.

I am not interested, it is nota genre I read. I read that it is not selling as we'll in physical book stores but that can easily change. It was selling on par with any other release and stores knew it wasn't Potter so they did not over stock.

As for the length of the Potter novels, I read that she is thinking of a "directors cut" for book 7. She is not fully happy with it and thinks it could be tightened up. Even with all the money she made the deadline got to her and she did not want to delay the release. At least she knows that there are issues with the book.